Dollars and sense, says mayor
BY TARA McGRATH
NEW mayor Karin Orpen has warned that
Knox may need to slash spending and
services to meet its financial obligations.
Cr Orpen said the two biggest challenges
facing the council in her term were inappropriate development and a $11.6 million
shortfall in councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s employeesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; superannuation fund.
The Weekly reported earlier this year
that the council would be forced to find the
money to subsidise the Local Authorities
Superannuation Fund gap.
Cr Orpen was the sole nominee for the
top job last week, despite several other
councillors stating their intention to put
their hand up for the position,
She was nominated by outgoing mayor
Adam Gill, who said it was great not to be
mayor any more.
Cr Gill said it had been a challenging year
balancing civic duties with his family â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he
and his wife Amanda have three children.
Cr Orpen said the challenge to top up the
superannuation shortfall was unlike anything the council had faced before.
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Where does that [money] come from?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

She said the council would need to be
frugal: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We need to to look at the musthaves and the nice-to-haves and see what
the difference is.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;
Cr Orpen also cited development concerns as an urgent priority. Part of her election platform was to stop the four-storey
development in Ferntree Gully Village, but
she said over-development wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t an
isolated issue. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing to stop
these [sorts of proposals] springing up in
Upper Ferntree Gully, Lysterfield or The
Basin.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;
Divisions in the council were evident during the bitter election campaign, but Cr Orpen said she was confident all nine
councillors would work together. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;They are
a great group of people. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the beauty
of local government â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diversity in
expertise and interest.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;
Cr Orpen works as a financial planner
and she and her husband Bill have three
adult daughters. She said they were thrilled
she had been elected mayor.
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;When I was mayor with younger children, Bill would cook dinner for himself
and the girls. But now heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be cooking it
just for himself and the dog.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

COVER: Caravan Club founder Peter
Foley and assistant producer Tracey
Miller have made it their mission to
create an oasis of contemporary music
in the south-east. See page 14.
Picture: Lucy Di Paolo

Life lessons:
Boronia College
students learn
some home
truths about
alcohol
and safe
celebrations . . .
with a surprise
warning for
mum and dad.
See page 4

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Top job: Karin Orpen will serve as mayor of Knox for the
next 12 months.
Picture: Rob Carew

MP criticised over Ferntree Gully multi-storey plan
early December is set to be followed by mediation between the
council and developers on January 7. A public hearing is expected in February.
The Weekly last week revealed
that the developer of the proposed
four-storey development at 44
Station Street in Ferntree Gully
had taken his application to the
Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Cr Orpen said the community
was â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;concerned by the rushâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and

because it dragged its feet before
deciding to request the height
controls.
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The council had 18 months to
take action but chose not to. It
was the state government that
made the suggestion. If there was
no suggestion, there would have
been no application.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;
He said he was surprised by the
mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comments because no
one had discussed the concerns
with him.

there were worries that interim
height controls of 7.5 metres in
the village requested by the council would not be approved by the
state government in time.
Mr Wakeling had previously
said he would ensure the planning
department would deal with the
request in a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;timely mannerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;.
Cr Orpen said there was now a
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;bit of disenchantmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; over
those claims.
However, Mr Wakeling said the
blame lay with the council

NEW Knox mayor Karin Orpen
says residents feel let down by
Ferntree Gully MP Nick Wakeling
following
revelations
the
developer of a controversial
multi-storey
building
has
bypassed Knox Council and gone
straight to the state tribunal.
Cr Orpen said residents and
traders against the development
were very disappointed that the
matter has been listed to be heard
over Christmas.
A preliminary hearing due in

AS the legal drinking age edges closer
and parties become a regular weekend
fixture for senior students, schools in
Knox are taking a proactive approach
to help them avoid risky behaviour.
Boronia K-12 College is one of those
schools and recently held a Safe Party
program for its year 9 students.
The party was organised by the
school’s adolescent health nurse with
Knox police, Ambulance Victoria and
Knox Youth Services.
Nurse Lyndel Armstrong said year 9
was the ideal age to teach students
about the risks and responsibilities
involved with adult behaviour.
‘‘They’re at the age where parties are
becoming part of the lifestyle. Some
would be considering having a 16th
birthday party next year,’’ she said.
The program includes workshops on
legal responsibilities, sexual safety and
first aid.
Ms Armstrong said they began the

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program by watching a DVD about a
party that goes dreadfully wrong.
One of the activities that caught the
students’ attention the most was learning how to measure a standard drink.
‘‘They were surprised by just how
small the amount of a standard drink is.
One mouthful from a bottle of vodka is
all it takes.’’
In the same session, they also try on
‘binge goggles’. Ms Armstrong said that
although strapping on the goggles
would not completely simulate drunkenness, it gave them a good idea.
‘‘It takes away their sight, their peripheral vision and it makes them unbalanced.’’
Students also had concerns for their
parents over new laws on the secondary
supply of alcohol. The laws mean that if
people under 18 are drinking at a party
where parents are supervising, the
adults can be fined up to $7000.
Ms Armstrong said the school may
hold a night-time forum for parents to
discuss their responsibilities.

YEARS of lobbying has paid off for a
Bayswater school which has won
$600,000 in state funding to build a
preschool.
Bayswater Primary School had been
working on the $1 million-plus project for
several years with Knox Council.
The schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early learning centre â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
built as part of the Building the Education
Revolution â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will be modified and extended to include extra parking, toilets and
an outdoor area.
The council committed more than
$400,000 to the project earlier this year,
which was a requirement to be eligible for
the state funding.
Many parents at the school supported
establishing a kindergarten at the site,
believing it would make the transition to
primary school easier.
Principal Ian Michelson said the introduction of a compulsory 15 hours of
preschool for four year olds from next
year also increased the need for another
centre in Bayswater.
The preschool is expected to open
in 2014.

THE principal of a new church school in The Basin
that was forced to abandon secondary education
because of low enrolments says he is hopeful of the
school reopening in 2017.
Christadelphian Heritage College was told by the
education department last week its secondary
classes would be axed next year because there were
less than 10 students per year level.
The school had received special consideration for
the past two years as it tried to establish the secondary school programs.
CHC opened in 2010 and was adding a secondary class each year with the aim of filling all year
levels by 2016.
Principal Bill Lunn said there were 10 enrolments
for year 9, three for year 8 and seven for year 7 in
2013.
While the school community was disappointed
by the closure, he recognised the government had
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;no optionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; but to deny it registration.
The school website describes its â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;environmental
goalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; to be a suburban school with the benefits of a
rural location.
Mr Lunn said it was never intended the school
would have large enrolment numbers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; its total
enrolment was capped at 150. He said the school

would focus on increasing primary school numbers
and was confident the secondary college programs
would re-commence in 2017 given projected
numbers.
Mr Lunn was buoyed by the support of
surrounding schools â&#x20AC;&#x201D; both government and
private â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which were likely to provide places for
the CHC students.
He said there had been some â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;very generousâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

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offers from schools to take students in groups so
that their friendship networks would be
maintained.
There were also plans for a bus to ferry older
students to their new schools, and then take their
siblings to Heritage College.
Mr Lunn said the departing students were very
positive about the future and would celebrate their
final days together on school camp.

Pride before possible fall
BY TARA McGRATH
THE first Lioness club established in
Victoria could soon vanish as membership of the Ferntree Gully group rapidly declines.
Club president Pat Dryden told the
Weekly that, after 35 years, the foundation club was left with just 10 members
— soon to be nine when another
departs at the end of the year.
‘‘We won’t be able to go on much
longer,’’ she said.
The group is part of the Lions Club
of Wantirna, but it operates independently, raising and choosing where to
donate its funds.
Regular sausage sizzles at Bunnings,
charity fashion parades and Christmas
hamper raffles all play a part in

generating funds for the charities, both
local and national, that it chooses to
support.
One of its best known charities
provides emergency toilet packs for
patients at the Angliss Hospital in
Upper Ferntree Gully.
‘‘We put a comb, toothbrush,
toothpaste, that sort of thing in the
pack for patients who didn’t realise
they were going to be in hospital
overnight,’’ Mrs Dryden said.
They’ve also supported disaster
relief funds, camps for underprivileged
children and other local groups.
At its peak, the club had about 30
members, but Mrs Dryden blamed a
Lions club rule change in 1991 for the
beginning of the decline.
‘‘In that year [Lions clubs] decided to
accept women. But one of the benefits
of our club is that we don’t charge
fees.’’
A neighbouring Lioness club in
Vermont has just six members, but Mrs
Dryden said she took comfort in the
fact that country groups were not
facing the same decline.

She said that when she first joined
the club had members ranging in age
from their 20s through to their 70s.
‘‘Now, our youngest members are in
their 60s, and we’ve got a couple in
their 70s and 80s.’’
Mrs Dryden said sausage sizzles had
become particularly difficult because
some members could not remain on
their feet all day.
She said that while new members
would have to be willing to work, it
was also a great way to socialise.
‘‘There’s a lot of fun to be had and we
have plenty of laughs. And many of us
have become friends out of the Lioness
club as well.’’
Lunches apparently are quite a hit.
‘‘Even though they’re just ordinary
like soups and sandwiches and dessert,
everyone seems to love them.’’
The group meets at the Lions Den in
Bayswater on the first and third
Monday of each month from 10am.

THE RACV has called for the Rowville Rail Link
to be built as part of a sweeping program of
improvements to public and private transport in
the eastern suburbs.
However, the much-discussed — at a council
level at least — extension of the tram from Vermont South to Knox shopping centre is not listed
as a priority in the RACV transport blueprint,
Growing Pains, released this week
The report calls on the state government to
address transport challenges and suggests a total
of $335 million worth of road projects for Knox
— not including the Rowville Rail project.
Knox’s arterial network is ‘‘at or near capacity
and in urgent need of duplication or upgrade to
eliminate checkpoints and limitations in the network’’, the report states.
The RACV calls for sections of Wellington,
Kelletts and Napoleon roads to be duplicated
and also suggests widening parts of Ferntree
Gully Road and Burwood Highway to six lanes.
The biggest single proposal is to widen Ferntree
Gully Road to six lanes between Stud Road and
Burwood Highway at a cost of $65 million. The
Wellington Road duplication is estimated at
$60 million. RACV public transport and

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INBRIEF
Speedster’s car impounded
A 21-YEAR-OLD man caught speeding at more
than 50km/h over the limit said he was in a rush to
study after travelling at 102km/h in a 50km/h zone
in Wyandra Way, Rowville, last week. His car was
immediately impounded by police. Sergeant Paul
Fisher of Knox highway patrol said police were
‘‘unpleasantly surprised’’ by how many drivers had
been caught speeding.

EastLink closes for bike ride
mobility manager Thanuja Gunatillake said
while the Knox tram would be nice to have, there
was not a ‘‘bottomless pit of money — bus services are more viable in the short-term’’.
The report notes that the transport system in
Knox is ‘‘already struggling to cope’’ and the
rapid expansion of Knox Central will only add to
the pain.
‘‘There is going to be a real increase in the concentration of jobs, dwellings and retail activity
and all that combined means there will be more
traffic,’’ Ms Gunatillake said.
The report states bus services were introduced
to the area ‘‘too late, leading to high rates of car
ownership’’.
But Ms Gunatillake was confident the high car
ownership rates would not affect the popularity
of the Rowville Rail Link.

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EastLink will be closed in both directions from
5am-1pm on Sunday for the Hanover
ConnectEast Ride for Home charity bike ride. The
motorway, two EastLink tunnels and the
Ringwood Bypass will be closed in the morning
and reopen throughout the day. The EastLink
section between Springvale and Canterbury roads
will be closed in both directions from 8pm on
Saturday until 1pm on Sunday and the section
between Canterbury Road and Frankston Freeway
will be closed in both directions from 5am Sunday
and will reopen south of the Monash Freeway at
11am and at 1pm north of the freeway. The
Ringwood Bypass will also be closed in both
directions from 8pm on Saturday until 3pm
on Sunday.

mammogram. A new campaign was launched this
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mammogram. Screening takes 10 minutes and is
free. A breast screening mammogram is
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Early childhood forum
Anyone interested in early childhood learning is
encouraged to attend a childcare and preschool
forum hosted by Aston MP Alan Tudge this Friday.
The forum — for parents, childcare providers and
preschool operators — will feature the shadow
minister for childcare and early childhood learning
Sussan Ley and Childcare Centres Association of
Victoria chief executive Frank Cusmana. It’s on
from 1.30pm at Orana Neighbourhood House in
Wantirna. RSVP: 9887 3890.

Honouring our women
Residents are being urged to honour extraordinary
women by nominating them for the 2013 Victorian
Honour Roll of Women. The roll acknowledges
women from across the state who have made a
lasting impact on their communities through
vision, leadership, commitment and hard work.
Twenty women will be inducted next March.
Women’s Affairs Minister Mary Wooldridge said
nominating someone was a great way to recognise
their contributions. Nominations are open until
Friday, December 7. Details: dhs.vic.gov.au/
womenshonourroll.

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Crossings
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BY TARA McGRATH

Dangerous: A picture from a serious accident at the
Mountain Highway level crossing in 2005. The driver
survived the carnage.
Picture: Wayne Hawkins
crossing gates, particularly those next to stations.
But there is also a clear safety advantage in the
avoidance of train-vehicle collisions,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; he said.
The government claims each grade separation
would cost more than $150 million, but Mr
Morton rejected those estimates â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he said a
separation at Boronia station in 1998 was completed in four weeks for $28 million. Ms Victoria
said the Bayswater project was complex because
two dual grade separations had never been
completed â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a whole new beastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;.
She said engineers had submitted plans and
several logistical amendments were currently
being made. She said no money had been allocated for works to begin on the project, but would
be if the Baillieu government was re-elected
in 2014.
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years away from being upgraded.
Bayswater MP Heidi Victoria confirmed that
fixing the notorious crossings on Scoresby Road
and Mountain Highway would be a commitment
for the 2014 state election.
The Scoresby Road level crossing was assessed
in 2008 as among the worst 50 crossings in
Melbourne. The Mountain Highway crossing
was ranked at 87th among about 170 metropolitan crossings.
Following the Dandenong South incident
involving a prime mover and a suburban train,
Public Transport Users Association president
Tony Morton called on the state government to
revive the program to eliminate Victoriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s level
crossings. A passenger on the train was killed,
and 13 others were injured.
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BY PATRICK HUTCHENS
A SIX-week food and wine tour of the
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for one mother-and-daughter team, it
was the next step in their business
venture.
Melbourne writer Jonette George
and her daughter Daniele Wilton
became entrepreneurs through a gap
in the book market â&#x20AC;&#x201D; producing food
and wine loverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guides for regional
areas around Australia.
Their latest is an exploration of the
outer east â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Produce to Platter: Yarra
Valley and The Dandenongs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which

From produce to page turner: Daniele
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have just released a new book on the
Yarra Valley and the Dandenongs.

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Peninsula.
The pair spent six weeks travelling
around cafes, restaurants and wineries
in each region and wrote a book that
gives the reader a taste of the culinary
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HIS is what an oasis in a cultural desert
looks like: a cavernous canteen littered with
mismatched chairs and tables under checkered cloths. A stage in front of a graveyard backdrop at one end and a tea station at the other.
There’s a disco ball suspended next to an old
metallic ceiling fan and hidden behind heavy
blinds are old war posters and flags bearing the
legend, Lest We Forget.
But that is the view during the day. At night the
place is transformed into an intimate space,
moodily lit by tabletop candles and light spilling
from the bar.
For the past seven years, the Caravan Music
Club in Oakleigh has been a beacon to lovers of
roots music in Melbourne’s own Deep South.
Founder Peter Foley, who was sick of the perception that there was nothing culturally respectable south of the Yarra, started staging gigs in the
loungeroom of his Oakleigh home. Although it
was seven years ago, the intimate gig remains
clear in the mind of that first performer, now an
assistant promoter, Tracey Miller.
‘‘It was beautiful,’’ she says wistfully. ‘‘ It was
so great to actually have people wanting to listen
to my songs.’’
Word soon spread about Foley’s loungeroom
antics and his small group of friends grew into a
bustling crowd. With the need for a bigger venue,
he packed up his portable music scene and shifted to the Oakleigh Bowling Club. In 2009, the
Caravan moved again to the Oakleigh-Carnegie
RSL, giving credence to its name.
‘‘We kind of parked it here and it never got
moved off the blocks,’’ he says.
In effect, the club is now located in a bigger
loungeroom, where punters are treated like family and bands are welcomed like out-of-town
friends.
‘‘There’s not rock bitches on the door; there’s
open and friendly faces,’’ Foley says.
Every soul that ambles into the club pays a
door charge. The cost is to ensure that the crowd
is only made up of the people who really want to
be there. ‘‘It’s not an incidental crowd. It’s a very
deliberate, committed crowd,’’ Foley says. ‘‘It’s a
listening crowd. That’s why performers like it
too.’’
The Caravan’s reputation is now so big that
the tour circuit once exclusive to inner city venues has grown to include it. While Foley once had
to seek out artists, agents representing acts like
The Sonics now come to him.
Miller says: ‘‘The word has got out that this is
a venue worth playing.
Cold Chisel’s Don Walker is now a regular and
Paul Kelly has rocked up to a gig before.
The Caravan has developed a reputation for
the respect that the acts are given. Musicians are
given food and wine and a place to get ready.
When Louisiana’s Lil’ Band o’ Gold performed
recently, they took over the kitchen and cooked

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‘It’s not an incidental
crowd. It’s a very
deliberate, committed
crowd. It’s a listening
crowd, that’s why
performers like it too.’
— Peter Foley
everyone Southern-style gumbo.
‘‘They feel at home and we always look after
the musicians that come here,’’ says Miller.
But that reputation has spread to the crowds as
well. ‘‘People from the northern side are coming
here too because they’ve heard about this club.
They know that they’re going to get a very special show when they come here and it’s worth the
journey.’’
On the night, early in November when the
Whitetop Mountaineers on tour from Virginia
play, the atmosphere is buzzing as punters trickle
through the door, and take a handful of mixed
lollies as they find their seats. The crowd is
November 14, 2012

mixed: there are hipsters just out of their teens
drinking Coopers and Bohemian baby boomers
sipping on rum.
For a moment, it’s as though Greenwich Village has taken over Oakleigh. Foley wanders
about finding extra chairs and stools for guests as
Eilen Jewell’s Southern drawl warbles out of the
speakers. At the beer garden out the back, Robyn
Steele, who has travelled from Seymour, is having
fish and chips with friends and family in the twilight. She caught the Mountaineers at the Apollo
Bay Music Festival and made the 100-kilometre
drive to the Caravan to see them again.
‘‘I love the atmosphere,’’ Steele says. ‘‘I’ve had
people say to me, ‘Oakleigh? You’re going to
Oakleigh?’
‘‘For me, it’s quite a long way to come. If I lived
close, I would come here every few weeks.
‘‘I love coming here.’’
Yarraville’s Jackie Lazzaro brought her family
to the gig and said it was the family atmosphere
she enjoyed the most. ‘‘It’s nice to know we can
enjoy this music together,’’ she says.
About 10pm, the band everyone has come to
see wanders on stage. Martha Spencer and Jackson Cunningham open their set with an ‘‘old
time’’ tune from the mountaintops of Virginia.
Spencer’s hand blurs across the banjo while Cunningham accompanies her on the guitar. The cou-

ple change instruments with regularity and
Spencer looks as comfortable with a fiddle or a
guitar as she does with the banjo. The songs they
sing are passed down by their families through
the generations and deal with cheating and
drinking and dying — the usual country themes.
The appreciation from the crowd is palpable.
Every eye is drawn to the stage and there’s thunderous applause after every song. When the band
finishes at 11pm, they get a standing ovation.
‘‘Another thing which people really like, which
seems uncool, is the fact that we run earlier and
finish earlier so people can get home on the
train,’’ Foley says.
‘‘This whole thing about bands going on at
10.45pm is a crock because no one can get home.
‘‘People in their 20s, it allows them to go out
and if they’ve got young kids, they can get a
babysitter. If they come home at 2am or 3am,
they can’t get a babysitter.’’
One thing now seems certain: the Caravan
Club’s nomadic days are over and the oasis in this
cultural desert has set down roots. Foley recently
committed to another three years at the venue on
Drummond Street. ‘‘It’s certainly very valuable in
this community, much loved in this community.
That’s beyond doubt.
‘‘Every week I get people saying how much it
seems like it’s changed their lives.’’

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Open day: The Ferntree Gully Village Discovery
Day is an annual community event at The Avenue
on November 25 featuring street entertainment,
art displays, demonstrations, food and market.
Details and stall bookings: Bronte, 9758 7859.

Footy day: Bayswater Junior Football Club has its
registration day from 10am this Sunday at the
senior clubrooms, corner Mountain Highway and
Bayswater Road. Details: Bernie, 0418 369 442.

Art exhibition: The Hut Gallery in Ferntree Gully
treasure and gifts exhibition runs until December 9
and features jewellery, pottery and mosaics and
textiles. The gallery is open Sundays from 11am.
Details: 9758 8955 or vicnet.net.au/~thehut

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Christmas event: Ferntree Gully Uniting Church
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November 25 as part of the Mountain District
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Christmas art and craft, food and free activities for
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biggest cycling holidays
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riders to be prepared. ‘‘If
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doing it for the first time.
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Actors kept busy
When two actors share the roles of 110 characters over 100 minutes,
things are sure to get a little frantic on stage for The 1812 Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last
show of the year, writes Tara McGrath.
ade famous by the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film, The 39 Steps was adapted for
the stage by Patrick Barlow in 2005.
However, while Hitchcockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version was a
serious affair, the stage adaption has a dash of
Monty Python about it, combined with the
classic â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;whodunitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; comedy.
Director Doug Bennett said the show was
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;side-splitting funnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, particularly with two
actors portraying 110 roles, including police
officers, underwear salesmen and porters.
Bennett said the cast of four had been rehearsing three times a week for the past 21â &#x201E;2 months.
The crew played a vital part in the show and
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;became the other actorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;.
There are more than 120 sound cues for each
show and 50 lighting cues which, as Bennett said,
made for a challenging task for performers
and crew.
Bennett has been involved with amateur

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Classic comedy: Doug Bennett, director of The 39 Steps, on the set of the show.

Picture: Wayne Hawkins

theatre shows across Melbourne for 54 years â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
since he was 15. He said while it was still exciting
to be involved, it took longer to get enthused
about the performance.
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;It takes me a week or two, but then I think to
myself that I am really enjoying it. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heaps
left in the tank still.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The 69 year old is also a
vocal advocate for amateur theatre groups, such
as 1812, because â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a total communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;.
He said it appalled him that some professional
actors denied their roots. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Judi Dench is never
too proud to say she worked in amateur theatre.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;
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shows. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing it for love â&#x20AC;&#x201D; so it should
be even better than people just doing it
for money.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;
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Saturday, December 8. Cost: $25.
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PICTURE: WAYNE HAWKINS

On target
Albania’s Shane Rexhepi scored in his side’s 2-1 win over Somalia in the Knox All-Nations Cup on
Saturday. More on the cup on page 22.

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Topp talent to fore again
Victorian second XI, plays matches in the coming
weeks. Osborne said he would call selectors to
put a word in for his young fast bowler.
Rams all-rounder Ian Holland has also played
for the futures team, recently making a century.
On Saturday, the Rams slow bowlers took
their opportunity. Teenage leg spinner Pat Ashton (4-21) made the most of a break from his
VCE exams to get his best figures in Premier
Cricket.
While the Rams need only 77 for victory,
Osborne isn’t letting his side get too far ahead of
itself following an outright win in its previous
match. ‘‘I would be happy to get those six points
first before we worry about anything else.
‘‘If there are plenty of overs left we’ll have
another crack at them, but a lot would need to go
right for us to get anything more from the
match.’’

BY ROY WARD
RINGWOOD captain Ben Osborne wants to see
opening bowler Michael Topp given a chance in
the Victorian futures team after another impressive performance from the Rams bowlers on Saturday.
Topp took 1-13 from 12 overs in the Rams’
focused first-day performance against Essendon
in unhelpful bowling conditions at Jubilee Park,
Ringwood.
The visitors were bowled out for 142 and the
home side was 1-66 at stumps.
Although Topp didn’t take as many wickets as
other weeks, Osborne said his strike bowler was
simply bowling too well for oppositions.
‘‘His early spell was another beauty. Some of
those deliveries were just too good for the batsmen,’’ Osborne said. ‘‘He didn’t get the wickets
he deserved, but we didn’t let them [Essendon]
off the hook. It was always going to flatten out,
but we continued to bowl tightly.’’
The Victorian futures team, also known as the

The Rams continue their match against
Essendon at Jubilee Park, Ringwood, this
Saturday at noon.

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Keeping an ‘i’ on mid-sized segment
BY EWAN KENNEDY
hough their model numbers give the suggestion the Hyundai i40 and i45 are similar in
size, they are quite widely differentiated. So
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In an interesting marketing move, the Hyundai
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when it arrived in Australia in October 2011. A
four-door sedan didn’t reach us for a further
eight months.
The Hyundai i40 sedan is the subject of this
week’s review and we’ve had a chance to drive it
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traffic jams of Sydney. Then we drove a different
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the hinterland behind our home on the Gold
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Interior space in the Hyundai i40 has goodsized seats for those in the front. Rear seat passengers will be short on knee room unless those
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legroom.
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Neat styling with plenty of flair is a big feature of all the latest Hyundai models. The all-new i40 sedan certainly
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All i40 models have Bluetooth connectivity
with audio streaming, as well as auxiliary and
USB sockets. Each model comes with the option
of a 2.0-litre petrol or 1.7-litre turbo-diesel
engine. Our test vehicle in Sydney was fitted with
the diesel. It has peak power of 100 kW, and
torque of 320 Nm between 2000 and 2500rpm.
The vehicle unit we used in our home grounds
had the petrol engine with up to 130 kW of
power. It doesn’t reach its torque peak of
213 Nm until it’s at 4700 rpm. Many drivers will
never rev the engine to these heights, but it does
have a good spread of grunt from about 2000
upwards.
The entry-level i40 Active is offered with either
a six-speed manual or six-speed automatic transmission; the Elite and Premium only come with
the automatic. Both our cars had the automatic
transmission.
The diesel may be small in capacity but it’s a
modern design and we were impressed by its
strong torque. As with all Hyundai models, the
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Home-town boy back to lead
BY ROY WARD
MATT Shanahan’s appointment as
Knox Raiders men’s coach is a
home coming, of sorts.
The former NBL veteran guard
grew up in Boronia, just a few doors
along from the old Knox Stadium
and while he never played juniors at
the club due to family connections
with Nunawading, Shanahan spent
hour upon hour training at the
venue.
Shanahan’s Raiders won’t play at
Knox Stadium next season with the
side now playing at the State Basketball Centre in Wantirna South
but regardless of their home court,
the 36 year old is excited to return
to the Melbourne basketball scene.
‘‘For me, it feels like I’m coming
back to an old stomping ground,’’
he said.
Shanahan has spent the past three
years as operations and development manager for Coffs Harbour
basketball association in New
South Wales where he also coached
the Coffs Harbour Suns to a championship in the NSW Waratah
league championship.

Shanahan was a playing coach
with the Suns but confirmed he
would be a non-playing coach with
the Raiders and would focus fully
on leading the side.
Shanahan acknowledged he will
walk into a club where success was
an expectation every season, with
departed coach Graham Longstaff
making his Raiders’ teams perennial title contenders.
‘‘I’ve got very big shoes to fill,
there is no question about that with
what Graham had done with the
team,’’ Shanahan said.
‘‘They have won championships
and made semi-finals. I’m more
than ready for it.
‘‘The club is an excellent outfit
and with a few minor changes and
adjustments I want to take them
one step further.’’
Shanahan said his move home to
Melbourne was completed within a
week as he won a job as a scout and
development coach with the Australian college of basketball based
at the Melbourne Sports and
Aquatic Centre along with the
Raiders coaching position.
‘‘Everything fell into place for me

Matt Shanahan
in seven days. In my career that has
never happened before,’’ he said.
The Raiders’ side looks likely to
remain similar to last season’s unit
with Shanahan saying he expected
to field imports C J Massingale and
Lester Strong once again but would
be looking for a forward to replace
the retired Stephen Hoare who will
be an assistant coach with Sandringham next season.
He said he would also be after a
reliable back-up point guard to spell
Sean Carroll.
‘‘With the role I want Sean to play
he won’t be able to play the same
high minutes he played this season,’’
Shanahan said.

‘‘C J was the first guy to call me
and congratulate me on my
appointment and Lester is expected
back from America this week.
‘‘I’ve told all the players they have
a blank canvas with me, whether
you are talking about a C J or a
Mick Hill or the youngest kid on
the roster. If they do the right thing
and work hard they will be rewarded.’’
Shanahan said he looked forward
to seeing Massingale return from
his stint with Adelaide 36ers in the
NBL.
‘‘He is hyped to come back.
‘‘He hasn’t played a lot of
minutes this season — he is in similar role to the one I played in the
NBL.
‘‘He has to be patient and take his
opportunities when they come.
‘‘Having him in the NBL can
work both ways. He might come
back in a bit late but if he comes
back in great physical shape and is
hungry and determined to show
what he could do ,then he could be
in for a big season.’’
Raiders’ pre-season training
begins next week.

France coasts to 6-2 win
in all-nations cup match
THREE second-half goals pushed
France to a 6-2 win over Portugal in
the opening round of the Knox AllNations Cup at the Knox Regional
Football Centre on Sunday.
The French got off to a perfect
start through Andrew Sava in the
sixth minute but Portugal equalised
one minute later with a goal from
Kenny Athiu.
France then gave itself some
breathing space when Josh Wood
scored twice within three minutes
but again Portugal came back
and within four minutes scored its
second goal through Pedro Sequeira.
France however was not deterred, scoring three second-half goals
via Kalonzo Kabongo in the 43rd
minute, Alexandros Saisanos in the
61st and Andrew Blumgart in the
67th to make a great start to the
tournament which opened on Saturday with reigning champions
Scotland defeating Romania 1-0.
Coached by Frank McGrellis
with Stan Webster overseas, Scotland started off intent on going
back-to-back by taking the lead in

the 17th minute through Wayne
Gordon.
However it could not increase the
lead despite dominating large periods of the game with no change to
the score at full-time.
Somalia made its first ever
appearance in the tournament and
went down 2-1 to Albania. The
third game of the day was a South
American derby between Chile and
Peru, with Chile getting on top early
and going on to win 3-0.
Another derby completed the
program on the first day of competition when Seychelles played Mauritius and got to half-time leading
2-0, before the final whistle had it
winning 3-1 after goals from Johnathan Ash (two) and Grant Lane.
On Sunday, Australia played Bosnia with the latterunderscoring its
dominance with a 4-2 victory.
Italy and Cyprus then played a
close affair with Italy 2-1 up at the
break but Cyprus came roaring
back to win 3-2.
Last year’s semi-finalist Ireland
ran into trouble in its game with
Serbia, going down 2-1 after lead-

[ 22 ] KNOX WEEKLY – YOUR COMMUNITY VOICE

November 14, 2012

Nations time: Somalia’s Bugra Yapar and Albania’s Benji Vahid battle for the ball
during the Knox All-Nations Cup on Saturday.
Picture: Wayne Hawkins
ing through a Mark Leech goal in
the ninth minute which it maintained until half-time.
Second-half goals from Milos Lujic in the 48th and 61st minute
turned the tables on Ireland and it
will have to work harder to make
finals.
The tournament continues next
weekend with games on Saturday
beginning at 11.30am at the Knox
Regional Football Centre near
the corner of EastLink and High

Worry over
FFV changes
KNOX City and Rowville Eagles have voiced
their discontent with the structural changes to
Football Federation Victoria’s competitions.
FFV announced last week it was abolishing
metro and provisional leagues, and dividing
the competitions into state league 4 and state
league 5.
Sides will then be divided geographically
into north, south, east and west with each of
those competitions featuring 14 teams.
FFV believes the changes will help lowerdivision teams progress through the ranks
easier, although Knox and Rowville are not
convinced.
Knox City’s president Cor Teeuw has mixed
feelings, despite admittedly not having an
extensive knowledge of the changes.
‘‘I haven’t really seen it [the league restructure], I have only been made aware of it
recently,’’ he said.
‘‘They tinkered with the bottom half of the
competition, but haven’t done anything to the
top half.’’
However, Teeuw does not believe the
changes are advantageous to lower-division
sides.
‘‘It doesn’t make it easier, the only thing
that’s good for the clubs is the local derbies,’’
he said.
Due to the geographic zoning system, Knox
will play neighbouring sides like Rowville,
which was crowned champions of provisional
league 3 south-east in 2012.
With the restructure in 2013, Rowville will
play in the same division as Knox, in state
league 4 east, despite the two clubs being four
divisions apart in 2012.
Rowville president Daniel Puscasu said he
was concerned about how his club would fare
against sides who were formerly in higher
grades.
‘‘It’s good, but not good for us. We basically
skipped one [whole] division,’’ he said.
‘‘We are rapt that we are playing big clubs
because we always enjoy playing against the
big clubs, but the competition is much harder.’’
Puscasu also refused to buy into the belief
that the restructure favours the lower league
sides.
‘‘On paper yes, but it’s not easy because of
the strength of the competition. The gap
between metro league and provisional 1 is
huge,’’ he said.
Ultimately, because of the changes, sides
such as Knox and Waverley Wanderers who
were in state league 3 last year, will come up
against provisional 2 and 3 clubs like Ashburton United and Rowville in 2013.
Puscasu also finds the zoning divisions a
dampener, as most Rowville players and
officials are in the Dandenong-Hampton Park
area, which is better suited to the southern
division of state league 4, not eastern.
For full information on the structural
changes, and leagues for 2013, check the
Football Federation Victoria website,
footballfedvic.com.au.
— Yessar Daou

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Two losses but a win still on the cards
BY ROY WARD and IAN HARLEY
UPPER Ferntree Gully Kings lost the toss, lost
opening bowler Jay Colee to injury but didn’t
lose their heads against reigning premiers Upwey
Tecoma on Saturday.
The Kings recovered from their early misfortune to restrict the Tigers to 146 in their
FTGDCA Norm Reeves Shield match at Upwey
Recreation Reserve.
Kings captain-coach Adam Slack said his
bowlers had stuck to their plans allowing them to
bowl out the home side.
‘‘We were steady all the way through the day, I
can’t complain the results,’’ he said. ‘‘It’s not a
large ground and they have a quality batting lineup.
‘‘We knew we would be up for a big challenge
and everyone worked hard and did the right
things and bowled in the right areas.’’
Tigers captain Sam Taylor (58) made the
majority of the home side’s runs as the Kings

quickly moved past the exit of Colee from the
bowling attack after four overs with a side strain.
‘‘Jay had a little side strain and I felt we had
enough depth in our bowling not to have to
risk him,’’ Slack said. ‘‘Hopefully, it’s nothing
serious.’’
Returning all-rounder Marc Hardy was the
star with the ball, taking three wickets in his
return to the side after football season.
Slack said his team still had to put in the hard
yards against the Tigers bowlers when play
resumes this Saturday.
‘‘I don’t want to say we will be doing this or
that, we just need to be a team which concentrates on doing what we need to do this week
with the bat,’’ he said.
‘‘We are 1-1 [win-loss] and it would make for a
good start if we can get to 2-1.’’
Ferntree Gully Blues bundled the Basin out for
49, Ryan Handley the destroyer taking 6-16.
The day didn’t improve for the Basin as Ferntree Gully finished the day taking first innings

points at 3-114. Ladder leaders Johnson Park
could only post 164 against newcomers Knox
Gardens.
Adam Wild took four wickets for the Falcons
as the Sharks struggled at the Argyll Way ground.
A solid batting effort next week, could see the

Confidence
in the camp
BAYSWATER’S batsmen face a test
of their determination when they
chase 253 against Kew at Victoria
Park, Kew on Saturday.
Waters captain Sean Flynn said he
was ‘‘quietly confident’’ his side
could make the runs but needed a
top-order batsman to anchor the
innings.
‘‘We made 200 against Coburg in a
one-day game a few weeks back and
batted out our overs in all our oneday games so I think we bat reasonably deep,’’ he said.
‘‘But it would be nice to see a toporder batsmen get a big score and let
the rest of our side bat around him.
‘‘Building partnerships early in the
innings will also be a key.’’
Flynn won the toss and bowled, a
decision he didn’t regret, even
though his bowlers didn’t make the
most of early conditions before the
change bowlers and spinner Tim Emmett slowed the home side down.
Emmett took 4-68 with his leftarm spinners.
‘‘I thought the wicket had a bit in it
and we probably didn’t bowl too
well early and were much better in
the middle of the day,’’ Flynn said.
‘‘Emmett bowled beautifully and
contained them from one end.
‘‘They were 3-90 at tea and we let
them get away from us a bit after tea
but the ground was in great condition and had a fast outfield so hopefully we have the same conditions
this week.’’
— Roy Ward

Falcons sitting with two wins from four completed games.
At Eildon Park, the home team set a target of
223 for the Knoxfield Knights, losing eight wickets in the days play.
Trentin Scholfield now has 13 wickets for the
Knights this season while Cody Morris and Mick
Sinclair batted well for the Panthers.
Play at Pickets Reserve saw Belgrave score
195, with Ryan Guest (43), and Doug Oaten (41)
the best for the Magpies.
Ferntree Gully Footballers’ new recruit ,
Nuwan Costa took five wickets and Nick Bogar
grabbed three.
In Decoite Shield, Mountain Gate made the
most of a move to Windemere, with Marshal
Bunting top-scoring with 143 not out to set
South Belgrave a chase of 285.
Monbulk seems to have Lysterfield’s measure
dismissing it for 127 with Blake Walter taking
five wickets. Rowville has 181 on the board
against the Saints.

WANTIRNA South captain Matt King
thought he’d blown his side’s chances of
beating Bayswater Park on Saturday
after dropping Sharks star Marcus
Adams on 70.
At 2-130 shortly before tea and with
Adams in control, Bayswater looked a
chance of chasing down Wantirna
South’s 234 in their RDCA Lindsay
Trollope Shield match.
However, Devils fast bowler Drew
McKay stepped up to take the crucial
wicket of Adams just four runs later.
King said the dismissal of the in-form
opener Adams (74) was the game
changer, the Sharks losing their final
eight wickets for 41 to be all out for 177.
‘‘Yeah, his wicket was the difference. I
dropped him on 70, but luckily we got
him out a few runs later,’’ he said.
‘‘We dropped him twice throughout
the game.
‘‘He came out after tea a little bit
weary though and thankfully we took
advantage.’’
However, McKay (5-46) and David
Ryan (3-27) were instrumental with the
ball as the Sharks’ middle and tail end
imploded.
‘‘It was a very tight game, they were in
control until a few overs after tea,’’ he
said.
‘‘But we managed to get on top of
them, and clean up their tail end with
some great bowling.’’
King was adamant it was his side’s
bowling attack that won the game, and
praised the influence of McKay in particular.
‘‘He was the difference in the end. If he
didn’t take the five wickets we wouldn’t
have won the game.

‘‘He really turned it around,’’ he said.
‘‘David [Ryan] also was fantastic,
cleaning up at the end and getting his
three wickets.
‘‘Our bowlers really did the job for us
today.’’
It wasn’t the first time that Bayswater
Park’s middle order suffered a collapse,
which gave Wantirna confidence after
the wicket of Andrew McKenzie (34).
‘‘In their first or second game of the
season they did the same thing, and after
the 30th over or so, they did it again,’
King said.
‘‘We knew once we got their top four,
we were going to get them all out.’’
Going into the second day, the Devils
are unsure as to whether their efforts a
week earlier was enough for the win.
‘‘On a fairly slow ground, we thought
the 234 was going to be enough
‘‘But they started to get about four
runs an over at the beginning.’’
King admitted he had some anxious
moments during the day.
‘‘When they were on 2-130 odd we
thought we might be losing this,’’ he
said.
‘‘Once we got a few out, we started
attacking their batters more, then finally
we cleaned up their tail end.’’
— Yessar Daou and Tony White